"and can slot in at right-back if required" - close season transfer banter 2014

surely it will take less than 3 transfer windows to find a holding mid less inept than Stevie

http://www.statsbomb.com/2014/06/gifolution-five-years-of-steven-gerrard/

paulinho IMO 20m yours

dat logo

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/t1.0-9/10486059_10152286347352746_3270486232263569460_n.jpg

squad looks a bit big

anderson and nani cropped out?

the Utd twitter account has a full squad version with Nani (and LVG's head photoshopped on to Moyes' body)

No Ando though

Sad Fellaini is looking sad.

Was considering using this thread to post the new LFC Warrior 3rd kit but didn't want to turn it NSFW. Oh my eyes :(

http://i60.tinypic.com/vzv40w.jpg

looks pretty great imo

ya I'm OK with that tbh

Old QPR second strip underneath some kind of sheer, Standard Chartered-branded body stocking by the looks.

ha

has a kind of dracula vibe that seems approriate

Tv3 in Spain apparently reporting Suarez deal completed at 62.6M GBP.

lies

cheapish

Third-highest fee ever, and cheap at the price. But highest manager transfer fees are where the true gold lies.

and nothing in return? seems whack imo

xp Those lists are weird because they don't necessarily take account of what currency the deal was done in, and are then sorted in EUR value against the current exchange rate - so the transfer or Mark Hughes is marked as the same as Brendan Rogers, despite it probably having a higher value against the EUR at the time.

The effect is most obvious in the player listings; Figo is at #8 with a transfer in EUR of 62M and Torres is at #10 with a deal done in GBP of 50M. The Torres deal was clearly for more money but the strength of GBP vs EUR has skewed the listing. Maybe the most obvious is Rio Ferdinand at #23 with his 30M transfer, way ahead of Andy Carroll at #32 with his 35M transfer.

And then there's Neymar of course

Ajax get 6,5% of that amount :(

"He can play in several positions and his versatility effectively makes your squad bigger," added Irvine

http://www.irishfa.com/fs/img/library/rs-800x600c/tickets-chris-baird.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZskwjqLJsw

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2121384-barcelona-transfer-news-stunning-luis-suarez-claim-made-by-oscar-tabarez

Several pinches of salt required I think, but :-O

If true then it would explain why the bite came out as it seems to be his mechanism to try and force through moves.

pinch of salt over chiellinis left shoulder praps?

Surely then it would have hit the devil in the face and kept him away?

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Br9Kw2cCIAILrZu.jpg

so, i am sure i am not the first person to think of this, but being reminded of david luiz @ 50m quid prompted the thought. could spendy clubs figure out a way to game the FFP system by shipping overpriced players between themselves?

di Stefano passes away

Titi Camara @TitiCamara22 · 1h
When I left Liverpool not many people thought I could have been replaced. Liverpool will survive without Suarez

amazing

It's a zing of some sort all right.

Titi Camara's left Liverpool?

titi camara has left liverpool

Haha, amazing

Bear in mind that's not a verified account. How do we know if it's really Titi Camara? The answer is we can't. And maybe we never will. Black Mirror, yo.

Tweety in camera

Ross McCormack is now an £11m striker huh. Good to see ffp and parachute payments operating in a co-ordinated and sustainable manner.

Jamie Carragher @Carra23
If Liverpool are looking for a centre back my one for the Future is Varane from Real Madrid

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BsCKDnaCAAApi76.png

V good signing for Soton imho

they're outdoing Liverpool so far

I'm pretty bloody excited abt Sanchez* playing with Cazorla and Ozil. There is a bunch of other shit needed to sort but that is potentially one of the five or ten best attacks in the world.

*presuming it happens obv

they should start playing a 4312 since they have one of the only good classical playmakers around, that way they can play ramsey and wilshere, along with a defensive midfielder (they seem to be trying for lars bender again) and play giroud and sanchez up front

sanchez is probably best played as close to goal as possible and running onto throughballs rather than as a winger

its not a formation that wenger has used much before although i think they played it once towards the end of last season

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CjUk9wXpgk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUZSbgCcjto

that second clip is wonderful, perfect angle from someone up in the rafters at the bernabeu

Dušan Tadić said: “It is a really nice feeling to sign. This is a really nice club of which I have heard a lot of good things about.

“I have already seen the beautiful training centre and there are lots of nice people that work here including the coaches so I am really happy to be here.

“I watched a lot of [Southampton’s] games last season and saw that the club plays really nice football which will suit me because I like to play in the same way.

Nice.

Haha

But Reds fans were left aghast by the antics of their player at the World Cup when he was captured biting Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini, just over a year after he’d done the same to Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic at Anfield.

lol btw

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